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Thread ID: 95278 2008-12-01 02:42:00 Is S3 available in NZ? sammo450 (13626) Press F1
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724514 2008-12-01 02:42:00 Does anybody know if S3 video cards are available from NZ retailers? And if so, is it worth getting one over an nVidia or ATi? sammo450 (13626)
724515 2008-12-01 20:49:00 Not really, and no. :) wratterus (105)
724516 2008-12-03 03:35:00 OK thanks :P sammo450 (13626)
724517 2008-12-03 04:24:00 Those cards were around, when cavemen were still around Speedy Gonzales (78)
724518 2008-12-03 08:59:00 I used to have a few of their PCI cards back in the day, the S3 Trio I believe... back when I ran 6x monitors at 800x600 off a Pentium 60MHz, coz the monitors couldnt do any higher :p

They're still in some laptops, but mostly laptops will use an nVidia / ATi / Intel chipset for video these days :)
Chilling_Silence (9)
724519 2008-12-03 10:47:00 One of their recent cards was slightly better than a 6600GT. Not bad, but not impressive by today's standards.

Still, I think they are more targeted at HTPC use rather than serious gaming.

I'd certainly like to try one out if I got the chance, though

edit: apparently the Chrome 530 GT is on par with the Radeon HD 4350 (https://s3gstore.s3graphics.com/)
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